Month: Feb 2019

No, this is not meant to be a tribute to the Bon Jovi song. I quite like that song by the way, but it has also been the question for this blog for some time. I have not produced any new content in quite a while and that is what I wish to write about today.

Writing a blog has in my opinion several good side effects. It helps out to structure thoughts, experience ideas and in some ways it can also function as some sort of therapy. Usually I get the spirit over me and write when I feel passionate about something.

I am passionate about spirituality and philosophy, but when it comes to these things one has to understand that is something for the long term. I don’t think of or deal with these subjects all the time. In fact, sometimes it is better to do other stuff and then come back and revisit the ideas. After I started out with my post called “The Other Side of Venus – part 1” I realized that it was a very difficult exercise. Usually a spiritual realization on complex subjects don’t happen over night or during the course of a week. In fact, it took me several months with occasionally revisiting the subject before I could even begin to think of what part 2 will look like. Maybe I will feel more ready to write it soon.

Spiritual growth is for the long term and cannot be rushed, but to me it doesn’t mean that the blog is dead. I do think however, that I will make some changes, and expand my subjects a little bit beyond the tarot. For me the tarot is just a tool and if I was going to write about it all the time I would feel limited by it. It is a tool that I can use to teach me lessons in spirituality and obtain new spiritual insights, but it is not about the cards themselves. It is a representation of ideas, and a tool to help show the way, but they are, in my opinion, not the way itself.

There are so many people who are fixated on the tarot itself and put limitation on themselves to think that it is only a tool for divination. Sure, it can be definitely used that way, but I would argue that it is mainly a distraction from the true potential of the tarot. Let go of the divinatory meanings. It is not what tarot is about. Rather try and see each card as a story and when you put them together you are creating a story. In practice you are putting different symbolic ideas together. If you look at tarot in that way, it doesn’t really even mean much what kind of background you come from. You could call yourself religious or spiritual, and I think that even with an atheist background it is possible to gain insights from the tarot. Ironically, I think it would also lead to better divinatory results to see the tarot in this way.

So I have decided that I will write some posts that don’t deal with the tarot at all, but of philosophy and spirituality in general. After all the tarot, in my opinion, is mainly a tool to advance within these areas. It doesn’t mean that I will not also continue to write about tarot though.

-Thus spake the Night Spirit

Super full moon. There are either some lighting disturbances here or I just did not bother to clean my lens properly. It was hard to get a “clean” picture.